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Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson will race for Andretti Autosport in the 2024 IndyCar season. Ericsson, who sits sixth in the IndyCar championship entering this weekend’s Gateway race, has been one of the key players in the driver market this ...

What prompted a very public IndyCar gamble that should pay off

One of IndyCar’s most difficult-to-unpick enigmas is one of the most regularly discussed drivers of this year’s driver market silly season. And no, we’re not talking about Romain Grosjean… On one hand, an average start of 15.5 and finish of ...

Palou rejection only hurts Mc Laren in the short term

There’s no doubt that Alex Palou deciding not to race for McLaren is a blow for its IndyCar team in the short term, but – and this could be controversial – it might end up being better off in the ...

Mc Laren begins legal action against Palou

McLaren has initiated legal proceedings against current IndyCar points leader and its own Formula 1 reserve driver Alex Palou. The move comes after Zak Brown informed his team last week – first reported by the Associated Press – stating that ...

What’s happening with IndyCar’s 2024 hybrid engine

IndyCar and its manufacturers Chevrolet and Honda have completed two days of on-track running at Sebring ahead of introducing the new hybrid-boosted engine package for 2024. Initially, IndyCar had planned to bring in a new 2.4-litre unit with hybrid power ...

Andretti’s just proved IndyCar must have a throwback weekend

It’s time for IndyCar to do a throwback weekend. The launch of Andretti Autosport’s latest one-off colour scheme – a Bryan Herta-inspired Shell livery for his son Colton to race in next month’s season finale at Laguna Seca – is ...

Winners and losers from latest Palou saga twist

The Alex Palou saga is back in full swing. McLaren’s declared he’s turned his back on a deal to join its IndyCar team for 2024, and that’s prompted a damning statement about McLaren from Palou’s current employer Chip Ganassi. But ...

Rahal drops Harvey in-season for 2024 IndyCar candidates

Rahal Letterman Lanigan will use the last three races of the season to evaluate drivers for next season, as Jack Harvey leaves the team and Conor Daly comes in for the next race at Gateway. Harvey joined Rahal Letterman Lanigan ...

Palou escaping Ganassi’s Mc Laren fury feels unjust

The owner of one of IndyCar’s most successful teams accusing a legendary rival squad of “interference” over its championship-leading driver’s future and saying he’s lost all the respect he used to have for that legendary rival is a sensational situation. ...

Dixon gets first IndyCar win of 2023 from 15th on grid

In his record-breaking 319th consecutive start, Scott Dixon made sure he made it 19-straight seasons with an IndyCar victory by winning despite being involved in a crash on the first lap of the Indianapolis road course race in which he’d ...

Ganassi attacks Mc Laren for ‘interference’ amid Palou row

IndyCar team owner Chip Ganassi has issued a scalding statement accusing rival McLaren of “interference” in the battle over championship leader Alex Palou’s future. It emerged on Friday that Palou will not – as long expected, and as McLaren believed ...

Who Mc Laren could sign after Palou’s dramatic snub

With runaway IndyCar championship leader Alex Palou having seemingly backed out of a 2024 deal with McLaren to stay at Ganassi, McLaren now has a huge hole to fill. After months when it seemed certain that Palou would make his ...

IndyCar’s surprise poleman has been under-appreciated too long

“I’ve seen plenty of the hate, plenty of the can’t do it, can’t compete with the kids, can’t whatever.” Graham Rahal’s done listening to that hate and he relished taking his first IndyCar pole position in six years on Friday ...

Brown claims Palou has ‘no intention’ of making Mc Laren switch

In a total turnaround, it looks like Alex Palou could remain at Chip Ganassi Racing in IndyCar for 2024 and snub what was once thought to be a near-certain switch to McLaren. Since last year when Palou declared he was ...

Graham Rahal on IndyCar pole for first time in six years

Graham Rahal snatched his first pole position in six years at the last possible moment from his team-mate Christian Lundgaard at the Indianapolis road course, while there were big championship implications for Alex Palou and Josef Newgarden. Rahal – who ...

Castroneves drops to Indy 500-only, Blomqvist gets full-time shot

Reigning IMSA champion Tom Blomqvist will race full-time in IndyCar for Meyer Shank Racing next season, as Helio Castroneves drops back to an Indianapolis 500-only entry and joins the team’s ownership group. Blomqvist impressed on the junior single-seater ladder beating ...

What IndyCar’s sudden new star wants to prove in his bonus race

“I’m not oblivious to what this weekend meant,” said Linus Lundqvist following his IndyCar debut, which started with a brilliant qualifying result and ended with a crash. It’s an interesting scenario, because before the crash, anyone watching the Nashville IndyCar ...

Brilliant peaks expose what Andretti’s double winner must improve

It’s been a rollercoaster second IndyCar season for Kyle Kirkwood, but last weekend he delivered a tricky win in Nashville to give Andretti its second victory of the season after his own Long Beach success in April. Now Kirkwood’s sat ...

Second chance shows IndyCar’s newest driver left a big impression

Linus Lundqvist will get a second opportunity to impress Meyer Shank as he reprises his super-sub role in place of the injured Simon Pagenaud at this weekend’s Indianapolis road course IndyCar race. Reigning Indy Lights champion Lundqvist qualified 11th on ...

Winners and losers from IndyCar’s Nashville race

This year’s Nashville IndyCar race didn’t live up to its ‘crashville’ nickname from the last two years, but the final event on this version of the street circuit still offered plenty of drama. Whether it was Andretti’s new boy Kyle ...

Grosjean didn’t waste his first chance to prove Andretti wrong

It’s still bizarre to consider that Romain Grosjean is fighting for his seat in IndyCar. We’ve established by now that his parlous situation at Andretti Autosport may not be purely down to his performances on track, and that it might ...

Snubbed junior champion showed IndyCar what it’s missing

“When I came into the season, knowing that I wasn’t going to have a full-time ride, I was like, ‘it can be a career killer, but I’m going to make sure that it’s not’.” That’s Linus Lundqvist, who has gone ...

Revised Nashville track to be finale in IndyCar calendar revamp

Nashville will host the IndyCar season finale for the first time in 2024, with a new street circuit taking the race past the iconic Country Music Hall of Fame. Nashville joined the calendar in 2021 and despite having to organise ...

‘Too slow to adapt’ – but Chadwick’s US move could yet pay off

A pair of top 10s in a row mark Jamie Chadwick’s best Indy NXT results of the season so far. That might not sound like the results you expect, but one of those 10ths was on an oval – no ...

This much-admired rookie must get another IndyCar season

He’s arguably been the story of the 2023 championship so far, so why haven’t we heard more about Agustin Canapino in IndyCar’s busy 2024 silly season rumour mill? His team boss Ricardo Juncos says Canapino has nothing left to prove ...

Prolonged Pagenaud absence sets up long overdue IndyCar debut

Reigning Indy Lights champion Linus Lundqvist will make his IndyCar race debut this weekend at Nashville in place of the injured Simon Pagenaud at Meyer Shank Racing. Lundqvist, 24, is the third driver in five races to replace Pagenaud, with ...

Grosjean ‘really frustrates’ Andretti – but shouldn’t be axed

He’s may be one of the most controversial drivers on the IndyCar grid but Romain Grosjean deserves another chance. There are strong rumours that – despite having appeared close to a contract renewal in May after two poles and some ...

Ericsson to replace Grosjean? IndyCar’s wild silly season

The latest blockbuster move in IndyCar’s wild 2024 silly season could involve Marcus Ericsson replacing fellow ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean at Andretti Autosport. While Ericsson told reporters including The Race last weekend that talks were still ongoing with Ganassi ...

Is Palou’s once-certain IndyCar title now at risk?

Josef Newgarden has won eight of the last 10 IndyCar oval races – a staggering number when you consider how unpredictable those races can be – and joined a club so exclusive there had been no new members for 30 ...

‘I’m going to fence you’ – Why Newgarden was so angry after win

If you’re a rival driver and you wronged Josef Newgarden on Saturday, you’d better find him and apologise before Sunday second Iowa Speedway IndyCar race because he is on the warpath. The message is simple. If you race him in ...

Is this the IndyCar pack’s last chance to stop Palou?

Why is there so much pressure on everyone at Iowa Speedway, more so than at any IndyCar race so far this season? There are a few simple reasons, so here we go. Alex Palou has a huge championship lead but ...

The next four breakthrough IndyCar wins that need to happen

In Toronto last weekend, Christian Lundgaard the first driver to score a maiden IndyCar Series race victory since Scott McLaughlin in the 2022 season-opener. And that got us thinking, who’s next? The Race has done this before. Just after McLaughlin’s ...

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